Olaf Hinz
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Olaf Hinz was Peer Steinbrück's office manager and now guides managers through challenging waters. Olaf Hinz advises and coaches experienced managers and project managers who want to manage effectively beyond tools and checklists. As a self-confessed Hanseatic, he guides his customers through challenging situations and supports them in fulfilling their tasks with nautical serenity. Before he started his own business, Olaf Hinz worked, among other things, as the office manager of Peer Steinbrück, at that time Minister of Economics in Schleswig-Holstein and personnel manager / project financier at LB Kiel. He publishes regularly on key aspects of his consulting topics and has written several books. More information at hinz-wektiven.de
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Project management - more than tools: Lead & direct instead of managing
Leading projects successfully is above all: management on the edge of chaos! Because things can change quickly. For such imponderables you need a good captain. Craft and attitude Unpredictability is one of the core characteristics of a project. It is in the nature of a project that goals change during the process, that members change teams, deadlines are overturned...
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5 Tips for leadership with influence: How to find your core group
It is a truism: in companies, there is an informal hierarchy alongside the formal one. Art Kleiner calls this informal hierarchy a core group. And that is exactly what you need to achieve if you want to lead properly. What is a core group? In the core group are the people you talk to when it comes to important things, decisions and…
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Project management & leadership: More than just a certified methodology
“Project manager in 3 days – this is how you get your projects under control!” – this and similar misnomers have been found in the project management consulting market for over 15 years – bold promises, certified standards and lots of tools and methods. More than a toolbox And in fact, project management is a highly methodical discipline and its origin can…
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Leading projects instead of managing them: leading teams properly
A look at practice shows that the need for "project managers" is increasing: almost all success-critical innovation or reorganization processes in companies are now handled in project form. A specialist department alone is less and less trusted with these central tasks. Increasing the quality of project management A second look at practice shows that the quality of project management must be increased, because...
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Teams as managers - 6 tips: flexible management, away with the alpha animals!
Many companies have long noticed that in times of increasing uncertainty, regular trend breaks and increasing complexity, it is good to organize corporate management in a team instead of relying solely on charisma at the top. Good leadership: the devil is in the details But the devil is in the details: too often only a formal dual leadership or management team is installed, in which…
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Learn about power from Star Wars: 5 tips on how to use power properly
Thanks to Master Yoda in Star Wars, we learned that the Force has two sides: a light side and a dark side. So power alone is not a bad thing: it must be used responsibly. What do we actually need power for? If things would work themselves out, there would be no need for leadership influence. This is the case for the vast majority of organizations that…
